Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

Gene Hackman

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

Jerry Andrus

We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.

Jenna Marbles

It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.

Jennifer Aniston

I was doing interviews and a question came up about whether I had anything I was addicted to. I said 'I actually have an addiction to eye drops.' And like, as I was on the phone I'd had my third - in the hour! - dose. I had them with me all the time.

Jennifer Aniston

As my doctor said, eventually [your eyes] do start to give out on you if you're not taking care of them.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Jean Dubuffet

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

Gloria Estefan

For I've finally realized, that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, Love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.

Giacomo Casanova

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.

Francis Schaeffer

We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen.

Francis Quarles

Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.

Ian Holm

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

Ian Holloway

Roy Keane's like a shark. He has those eyes. You don't know if he is going to buy you a drink or eat you.

Hugh Leonard

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

Hugh Laurie

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

Hugh Laurie

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

Hugh Jackman

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.